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By Tom Johansmeyer Yahoo! (YHOO) is the latest company that wants to optimize its search results for Twitter. This follows moves by Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) to integrate Twitter data into their search results. Unlike its competitors, however, Yahoo! wants to do this without spending a dime (well...

By Tom Johansmeyer NASA is making a social media bet on people from 21 states, Washington and five countries, including Morocco and New Zealand. Almost half are from Florida, which is quite convenient in the event of a launch delay. Continue reading NASA makes social media bet for Atlantis launch

By Tom Johansmeyer Filed under: Products and services, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), AT and T (T), iPhone, Technology Continue reading BT and Google battle over the spoken word Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Tom Johansmeyer Michael Moe knows how to make headlines: Talk about Twitter and predictably people will bite (I'm proof of that). He led the team at NeXt Up Research that calculated the value of the micro blogging service and arrived at $526 million to $674 million -- half what Twitter is generally believe...

By Tom Johansmeyer For News Corp. (NWS), MySpace is the mistake that keeps on costing. It's bad enough that Murdoch's empire paid $500 million for the social networking platform shortly before Facebook knocked it from the premier spot in the social media beauty pageant, but now we also know that News Corp. has...

By Tom Johansmeyer The Twitter ecosystem may be changing constantly, but most of that comes on the back of individual developers and outside companies. They beat on Twitter APIs to create new products that may win them glory, recognition or cash. Over the past month, though, Twitter itself has gotten into th...

By Tom Taulli Of course, one is MySpace. And, a top writer from the Wall Street Journal, Julia Angwin, has an excellent book on it, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. Continue reading Book Review: Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website